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Towards a strategic resilience of applications through the NIST cybersecurity framework and the strategic alignment model (SAM)

Abstract:

The applications deployed to serve the users, are the result of the organizations strategic decisions made to improve the business competitiveness. Considering that both clients, suppliers and members of the organization are increasingly dependent on the software and access them through any type of device, applications need to be designed with added value and must be in accordance with corporate strategies. Assurance of software delivery based on security analysis and good practices of confidentiality, integrity and availability, allows effective and reliable alignment between the organization, IT and users. This article proposes a heuristic conceptual framework of resilience, which allows the IT infrastructure to be managed reliably and safely. An alignment between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework and the Strategic Alignment Model (SAM) is proposed, which helps define the appropriate path for an application being used to return to its normal operation, after an error. To achieve this, an analysis is performed on the fault tolerance barrier, and explains how to monitor and restore errors before they become failure.